“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” Those lyrics by R.E.M pretty much sum up one of the biggest genres currently flooding the media these days, the zombie apocalypse. From the early days of George Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead to AMC’s hit show The…
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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness: Book Review
“The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.” Thus begins A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness’s hauntingly beautiful story of loss and pain.
Kill List (2011) – Review
Two hitmen walk into a church. Now that could be the set up to a terrible joke, or just a typical action scene from one of Hollywood’s many action movies, but when the priest in this film says, “Thank you” to the killer just before he takes a bullet to the brain, well that kind…
Ash vs Evil Dead: Season One – Review
Is there anything more entertaining than seeing Bruce Campbell getting the crapped kicked out of him? I’m not sure, but thirty years after the original Evil Dead hit theaters we have a television series that does its best to answer that question.
Wolfen (1981) – Review
1981 was certainly the Year of the Wolf, we got John Landis’s amazing An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s equally excellent The Howling, but there was a third wolf film out that year, one that many people have forgotten, a little flick called Wolfen.